Spence is also Professor in Economics & Business at the New York University Stern School of Business and Professor and Dean, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Michael Spence is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, serves as co-chair with Joseph Stiglitz of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation and is Senior Advisor at General Atlantic and a Senior Advisor at Jasper Ridge Partners.

He is the co-chair with Dr. Victor Fung, of the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute at Hong Kong University. Spence serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Spence chaired a global Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010), addressed to growth issues in emerging economies.

Professor Bruno Lanvin

Dr Bruno Lanvin is the President of the Smart City Observatory. He is also Executive Director of INSEAD’s Global Indices, founder and CEO of D&L Partners, and co-founder and director of Portulans Institute.He has exercised senior responsibilities at the World Bank and in the United Nations.

Since 2002 he has been co-authoring the Global Information Technology Report (INSEAD-World Economic Forum).He is currently the co-editor of the Global Innovation Index Report (INSEAD-WIPO-Cornell University). He was the founder of a significant number of other key global indices and reports, including the Global Talent Competitiveness Report (GTCI), the Smart City Index (SCI) and the PICSA Index. Dr Lanvin holds a BA in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Valenciennes (France), an MBA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I (La Sorbonne) in France.

He is also an INSEAD alumnus (IDP-C). A frequent speaker at high-level meetings, he advises a number of global companies and governments around the world on technology, innovation, talent and AI matters, and has been a member of numerous boards, including those of IDA (Singapore), ICANN, GovTech (Singapore), the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Government Innovation (United Arab Emirates), IP-Watch, and the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy (EAAID), inter alia.

Professor Manuel E. Sosa

Manuel E. Sosa is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management, the Director of the Heinrich and Esther Baumann–Steiner Fund for Creativity and Business at INSEAD. He is also the director of the new “Innovation by Design” on-line executive programme.He received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela) and an SM.

He received a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Professor Sosa research in complex product and software development have been published in journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Harvard Business Review amongst others.

His research about “managing design” has received several awards.He developed a teaching programme with the Art Center College of Design (California) to integrate business and design disciplines for product development. He has received the Dean’s commendation for excellence in MBA teaching multiple times. He was runner-up for best professor award on innovation management and creative thinking twice.